[bustinchops]

Ostammer and his ilk think that it’s being spent badly because it’s being paid to insurance carriers instead of going to the government.

[InterestedQuestioner]

“Second, we've estimated that most of this plan can be paid for by finding savings within the existing health care system – a system that is currently full of waste and abuse.”

Impeccable logic, Mr. President. So the government that currently is running a healthcare plan that is * full of * waste and abuse should be given a trillion dollars more to make an even bigger program with more power??

I wonder how "we" arrived at that estimate. Pray tell, Mr. President, what methodology did you use to arrive at your brilliant estimate? Did it have to do with red pills and blue pills? The bogus claim that doctors game the system so they can make more money by performing amputations on their patients b/c it pays better than preventative medicine. Tonsillectomies just to increase profit??